Famous People
Famous People II
Changes to the Constitution
Vocabulary
Economics & Grab Bag
100
Who were two famous evangelists during the 1920's?
Bob Jones and Billy Sunday
100
A collector of books, pamphlets, poems, and pictures by or about African Americans
Arthur Schomburg
100
The right to vote is called what?
Suffrage
100
Part of a company available to buy at the stock exchange; shares.
Stock
100
Economic loss is called what?
Bear Market
200
What did Warren G. Harding promise the American people?
A "return to normalcy"
200
A mobster who was blamed for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Al Capone
200
The ban the made it illegal to buy or sell alcohol was called what?
Prohibition
200
Payments people make to a bank to pay back a loan.
Installments
200
Economic growth is called what?
Bull Market
300
A sports figure that fans wanted to see hit a home run.
Babe Ruth
300
The pilot who made the first successful solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
300
What are changes made to the constitution called?
Ammendments
300
The process of a bank loaning a person money to be paid back.
Credit
300
When did the stock market crash? (Month and year)
October 1929
400
Who were the two famous policemen that tried o close down the speakeasies?
Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith
400
A popular actor in silent films
Rudolph Valentino
400
To approve an amendment to the Constitution is called what?
Ratify
400
What was the "Florida Boom"?
A period when lots of people were buying and selling Florida real estate.
400
Two benefits of the assembly line and interchangeable parts are:
-Cars produced faster -Cars produced at a lower cost -Lowered the sale price of cars -Cars and parts are easier to repair -Allowed more people to have cars
500
Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were leaders in what movement?
The suffrage movement
500
An author whose writings reflected the attitudes and values of the 1920's
F. Scott Fitzgerald
500
What was the 18th Amendment? What was the 19th Amendment?
18th - Prohibition 19th - Women's right to vote
500
What were women who dressed in nontraditional ways called?
Flappers
500
Four names given to the 1920's are:
-Jazz Age -Dazzling Decade -Roaring Twenties -Golden Age of Sports -Get-Rich-Quick Era -Dry Decade
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